the country folk of every nation are the heart and soul of all its goodness
@clarakam385810 ай бұрын
This is how we grow up❤. Every one helping & working in the yard/ garden, since you are small but every think was home made and fresh ,we also played in nature with no toys, no t.v ,grew up alone our parents ,gransparents working and we grow up healthy, strong ...our gransparents even made soap in home ,because in comunism era you didn' t find soup ,shampoo etc but we has strong hair & healthy, we brush our teath with baking soda sometimes because you find tooth paste hard ,but believe baking soda make your teath strong ,white ,kill bacteria etc . Now we live in big city with every think to buy and we are not so healthy, our kids grow up with chimicals etc so sad.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
I never see kids outside playing where i am. on the island kids stillplay outside, maybe because we have lots of beaches and forest to run around in. Not so much in a concrete jungle here. Hope you have a great week.
@user-xi6nk4xs4s10 ай бұрын
Reminds me totally of the life my mother's parents had. Growing their own food, having their own livestock and understanding nature. Despite all modern technology and advancement, how much have we lost.
@1somnorici10 ай бұрын
"Palincā“ (Palincah with a soft " 8:11 h") or "Tuicah" (special "t" pronuced as in "tsunami" same soft h) you could call them "moonshine" from fruits. Palinca is double or triple distilled. Starter, digetiv or moonshine for talk after. Palinca over 50 degrees, usually 60.
@gaby00110 ай бұрын
@MrGiant you can come to Romania and try all these, the experience is unique... even extraordinary,😊
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
Romania having 4 seasons, you only get fresh fruit and veggies from april to late october, now if u have gardening or a plot of land to grow a vegetable garden you have little bit of surplus so that was and still is the way of preserving stuff. It was very common for ppl to do this 50 60 year ago when having a fridge with freezer was a luxury
@bur3b1sta10 ай бұрын
In Banat - in the area my father is from (and where my grandparents lived), soup is a food that is always present on the table. Doesn't matter if it's a regular meal, or a wedding, or a funeral, soup is always served. Another thing never missing are the cakes and pies. I spent most of my summers there. My grandparents would do it like this: they boiled a chicken (with carrots, and some onion, maybe even some celery); the broth is served with the carrots in it, homemade noodles and parsley; the chicken is removed and cooked a bit more in the oven and served with mashed potatoes. The broth is enough to last a couple of days. So the next day you would get some of the same soup and either some sauteed cabbage with salted pork or sausages or beans with sausages. I'm not sure if sauteed cabbage is the best translation, but can't think of a better one. In the mornings we often had milk (sometimes tea) with eggs and sausages, or cheese with tomatoes and we'd finish breakfast with bread and jam. And the cakes and pies.... I've never seen another area with so much variety (maybe it's because you don't get to see everything as a tourist, but I think it's just the local customs that brought this variety). Every family used to have a secret cake recipe in my fathers home village - that would be dozens of recipes just for cakes. And then there are the pies and cookies... an endless variety of home made sweets. My grandma's secret recipe was a cake made with a spongy cake batter with walnuts in it, a delicious cream that I never knew how it was made, and everything ornate with grated walnuts.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Man, all of this sounds so good. I was lucky to get all of my Mother's recipes. She taught me how to cook when I was eight years old. Been cooking ever since. On the island we have a lot of sweets too, most made from the tropical fruit. Its always a cook fest around Christmas.
@AntonioZephiel10 ай бұрын
"when i was a kid whatever will put on your plate you got to eat" 😂 same in Roumania. So nice that you share stories like that.. 😀
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you are having a great week so far.
@AntonioZephiel10 ай бұрын
@@MrGiant TY, i wish you the same. I'm Romanian and i like to watch your videos, you are passionate and honest, unlike most youtubers today.. i hope your channel grows well. 😊
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
@@AntonioZephiel Thank you for the kind words.
@alexandrupatru289210 ай бұрын
And finally, not only you react to JetLag Warriors, which are some of the best foreign travelers, if not the best that have ever presented Romania, but also the video you chose was in a village outside My home city! Loved your reactions, stories, remarks and I hope one day you can visit. Be ready for a temperate climate, depending on the season to dress accordingly! Peace!
@madalinv34210 ай бұрын
Salut alexandru
@alexandrupatru289210 ай бұрын
@@madalinv342 salut!
@ancienttrac10 ай бұрын
8:36, yes, the most dangerous object in a Romanian house is the plastic bottle... you never know what it contains. In Romanian homes, everything is recycled: plastic bottles will always be filled with various drinks (we even developed a mechanism/object that allows soda to be made in and bottled), organic waste is thrown into the garden to make compost, any wire is used for repair/strengthening fences/household objects, old textiles are used in the production of carpets (Ikea type), wheat residues (wheat bran) are used to make a liquid used to sour soups so on...
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Using everything. That ios cool.
@bur3b1sta10 ай бұрын
Mamaliga (polenta) seems similar to the Cou-Cou you mentioned... a simpler version, I'd say. Cornmeal, water and salt is all that goes into it. We love it either as a side, instead of bread, or as a stand-alone dish - mixed with cheese and sour cream.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing!bI would like to try this version of it.
@ioanadam142610 ай бұрын
Fact about your kuku. I am from Romania, from a region (Banat) bordering Serbia, Hungary and close to the region were this blog was filmed (Oltenia). In our countryside speech ( who is a mix from romanian, hungarian, serbian and german words) maize is kukuruz, Also you can try to hear the prononciason in serbian (kukuruza) or hungarian (kukoricza) language using Google translate. Also in polish language is kukuridza and in ucrainian is kukurudza. KUKU everywere.🙂 Another thing: regular romanian food is not spisy (hot spicy), this is an option for those who like it. Also, it is clear in in Jet Lag Warriors blog theat was a aditional dressing.
@miposdad510 ай бұрын
There is a Romanian restaurant right in your town. It is called "Romanian Garden" and there you can find a wide range of Romanian food... It's not really the only one but, it's the most famous in NYC.
@shiniisback163610 ай бұрын
My god this is so holsome, i love waching his videos, expecialy the ones about Romania since is my country....i thank you good sir for making my day better
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Happy you enjoy the videos. Have a great week.
@shockandawe727410 ай бұрын
Life on your home island sounds like Heaven. We use natural fertilizer too.
@turcuadiadria10 ай бұрын
In these period we are perpering for winter so that's why there so many jars of different vegetables. We did that ever year because winter can get very hard sometimes. Our palinca can get form 30 % to 60 % alcohol there usually making a 40-45% alcohol because thats the procentaj that the taste is the best. We also boiled wine and tuica in winter jut to warm up in hard winter.
@turcuadiadria10 ай бұрын
Doing our own products that's how we survived the grate hunger in wold war 1 and 2 also hiding in the montane and fighting we survived te migration of the barbarian tribes. These is a way of life for us if we don't do preparations like these we don't feel good. We do these for hundreds of times the information being passed trim parent to child that's why we're so organiser. My grandma will ask me to help doing the jam if I didn't help or didn't do a good job I'll never heard the end of it.
@ady4fire10 ай бұрын
The romanian kuku is called mămăligă. I am guessing is the same. Corn flower, water and a bit of salt. Boiled slowly and stirred very well. We are eating it as a substitute to bread. I am sure you have the same, after all the corn came in Europe from the South and Central America. She exagerrate a bit regarding the spice. in comparation with S-E Asia, Central Africa and Caraibe is not as spicy...indeed some types of food can be quite spicy in Romania but not at that level. All those jars from the beging of the video are a consequence of the climate. From the begining of the autum until next summer not much is growing and people had to find ways to preserve the food.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
In the mountains here in the US where Ilive people do the same thing. Jars of preserved food everywhere. We did not do that much on the island where i am from because different foods grow year round because of the tropical climate.
@larinho805 ай бұрын
So nice to see you so interested in our country! Have a great day, Sir!
@MrGiant5 ай бұрын
You have a great day also.
@blankcdcd137210 ай бұрын
About drink: now you see in this video how much alcoolic drink have romanian in house. This example is a lower exemple, in another parts of Romania have much more drinks. I will warninig you: romanian have lots of drinks home made. This channel JetLag Warriors have more than 100 video from Romania. Great content, please continue! ❤
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching with me. Thank you for commenting. I can taste the drink but I am not much of a drinker, but I sure will try it. We have our own version of homemade on the island where i am from. We call it Mountain Dew and its made from sugar cane.
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
Visinata. Is an high alcoholic drink made with sour cherry mixed with sugar topped up wit high stegnt alcohol/palinca and macerated for 3 to 4 weeks. Is very sweet and syrupy, tricky it wil get you drunk fast without knowing, serve either as appetizer or with desser as digestive. Ladys tends to prefer this as is smoother than palinca
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Syrupy and sweet is my kind of drink. Smooth is also.
@monnadia9 ай бұрын
🙂 you said it: these people can survive everything it is so right for my grandparents and my parents generations. Not sure that the 2000 generation can still do it
@user-ui1tz3tr7q4 ай бұрын
Over 90% from romanians have homemade drinks , palinka, țuica, wine, liquer and they try to eat fresh food. This are the traditions. Respectly, Cristian 🎉😂
@elisabeta469610 ай бұрын
Now is 3:45 am. Good morning, mr Giant! 😊 at pickles we call MURĂTURI. They are made with hot water+ salt ( 1 Table spoon of salt, 1 litre water) . Accidity is verry good. VIȘINATA( vishinata) is a luqeor made with VIȘINE ( vishine). I don't understand english, americans why they complicate theyr life and language 😅. For two different objects, situations etc you use 2 words. For example this. You say " sour cerries" , but this fructe is VIȘINE( VISHINE). they are different like cherry. VIȘINE are translucid and exclussive dark Red. Cherryes are yellow, Red, even...Black 😊. MAMALIGA is the same like in " My cousin Vinny" movie with Marisa Tomey and Joe Pesci. They eat " gritz".
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing. We have a lot of fruit that acidic on the island where I was born and raised. I love them.
@Valimvp10 ай бұрын
come in Romania Mr Giant
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
One day I will.
@AlexM.CACiULOiU-ek8hj12 сағат бұрын
Just tell when..and o will guarantee same experience that you see...după țuică vișinată și vin( prefer must) i guarantee you will work up the stairs in 4 legs!! Come to de final of the summer!!
@adriancojocaru716524 күн бұрын
The old people are not staying with young people at the same table only not to annoy younger persons...
@MarianBasescu-pd7pf9 ай бұрын
It's just life
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
The guy is defo tipsy:)))) one glass of visinata and two glasses of red wine desl done. And yes is always more then on solution to a problem. From help ftom a friend to calling the mayor:))))😂😂😂😂
@bogdantudor783510 ай бұрын
Garlic you can do it strong or week depend on taste. Grats from Romania!
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thanks! 👍 I love garlic, use it in almost everything I cook.
@moartea94810 ай бұрын
Hello Mr Giant. Nice to see you again
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Hi, great to see you again too. Hope all is well where you are.
@moartea94810 ай бұрын
@@MrGiant i was missing you videos
@moartea94810 ай бұрын
I.m în Romania
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
@@moartea948 in the city?
@moartea94810 ай бұрын
@@MrGiant Bucharest .the capital
@radublaga742410 ай бұрын
❤️💛💙 You will be very welcomed in Romania ❤️💛💙 We are the ANCIENT people of Europe! The most peaceful and cultivator people of the land: Cereals, wine, honey, ovines. Everything made by their hands. The 80's years generation, who still knows how to work the land, prepare the food and their own clothes etc, are the LAST generation of the Real human beings made in the LIKENESS of the Mighty GOD.
@danasima865910 ай бұрын
May GOD help us all❤️💛💙✨🙏
@sierraleonediamondexplorat208010 ай бұрын
Brother I can feel your pain, live is not over... follow your dreams....
@dumitrupetrunichiforel6775 ай бұрын
you are a good man:) Im happy Ive meet you
@MrGiant5 ай бұрын
Thank you. Happy to meet you too. Hope you are having a great week.
@user-ui1tz3tr7q4 ай бұрын
The romanian food is not spicy, just if you want to put spicy on food !!😂❤ Cristian
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
That onion is actually leeks is mainlly used in the part of the countfy called Oltenia, the folks from romania do have a tenndency to bust a lot of jokes about that:))😅😅
@myckutzul8 ай бұрын
small trasnslation ... only grama know how to take out wine and have acces to basemanth....underground grama..knows all..:D:D
@munchkin0.o10 ай бұрын
we love our dogs too we let them roam at night
@munchkin0.o10 ай бұрын
back in the day
@clarakam385810 ай бұрын
We also eat the pig years ,we make " piftie " soooo good with garlic, oh sooo good. We use every think from the pig ,and our fathers/ grandparents learn to chop the pig ,was a real shame us a men not to know how to kill & prepare the pig 😂❤
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
That is something our cultures have in common. On the island we use all of the pig.
@user-ui1tz3tr7q4 ай бұрын
Hi man. The bradcorn is polenta, mămăligă in romanian. 😂 Cristian
@liviurafaelnichiforiuc78969 ай бұрын
I hear you with alcholol :D that's how I am too :D
@clarakam38589 ай бұрын
The earth can give us every think we need to survive, but ppl are greddy 😢. God give us earth to plant & grow animals to eat from animals & earth, to bad we don' t see it😢❤
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
I would say that in terms of spices, Romanian cusine is little mellow, not like asian , caraibbian, african ,Indian food we do not have very bold spices on the other hand as heat goes is a matter of taste some dishes cadn be made with hot peppers or according to preferences not. The poit is that is very flexible and it can go either way:))
@mikkohapponen572810 ай бұрын
Karelian granny lived with us years,underground cellar was full of jars,we had small plot so she run it fast to get all for winter. Man i miss that lady
@shockandawe727410 ай бұрын
Yes, that's corn flour. We call the food mamaliga.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
It looks delicious.
@shockandawe727410 ай бұрын
@@MrGiant Very bland by itself, it goes well with other foods.
@lalalala66610 ай бұрын
Hello again; well, Romania is almost 80% rural area and until the end of the First World War, Romanians lived almost exclusively in the countryside. The nobility was (especially later) mostly foreign and in Transylvania, Romanians were forbidden from entering the cities (I believe you could only get inside to buy/sell animals/vegetables/fruits/other types of merchandise and then you had to get out before the gates were closed). The common peasants had no right to vote, although they paid taxes (I believe there was one vote per village, but I'm not sure if the mayor/priest/teacher each had a vote themselves); in Transylvania, the phenomenon known as "magyarization" was prevalent, where if you changed your name to a Hungarian one, converted to Catholicism (Romanians are traditionally Orthodox Christians) and started learning Hungarian, you would be welcome into the "proper" echelon of society, otherwise you'd be cast aside and left to rot in the countryside. In Vallachia, the Ottoman Empire kept the region as a buffer against the Russian Empire, the local boyars were abusing the population and in Moldova, they were under Russian domination (later the URSS cut Basarabia away from Romania and started an aggressive process of russification). During World War II, Hitler invited Romania to join the Axis, we refused so he allowed the Hungarians to conquer the north of Transylvania in order for Romania to join and prove itself before the Führer, in order to gain that territory back. Afterwards, we were forced to switch side and fight on the Allied side (siding with the Soviets) who then brought only chaos for our country. 50 years of corruption, planned economy and Ceausescu's cult of personality brought us to ruin and, as a side-effect of communist rule, our "discrimination" criteria aren't based on color, race etc. (Romania had and still has many African and/or Arab and Asian foreigners who come here to study, work or open businesses and we've never had trouble with them, if at all); one might consider a person's "fatness of their wallet" and the size/number of their connections and acquaintances as a criteria of being considered "upper/lower class" - if you know people and have the dough, you're someone, otherwise you're trash. However many people are warm hearted and mean no harm. :)
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thank you for all the information.
@DinaA50610 ай бұрын
Romanian dishes differ from one area to another, even if they have similar names and ingredients, they differ from one area to another, from the taste to the way of preparation... example: sarmales can have a different taste in one area compared to another .
@shockandawe727410 ай бұрын
Truth is that Romanians are like vampires but in a good way. We like to treat our guests as well as we can and when we see them having a good time and enjoying themselves we get energy from the good vibes of our guests. If you ever come to Romania, best is to plan for a long trip so you can stay for the moment and take it slow. If you rush through all the touristy places you will miss a lot of nice things. Stay in a village and enjoy being bored and taking it easy.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thankyou for sharing.
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
The dog is tied to the tree because is a guard dog. Ppl dont really bother to train him so as a consequence he will bite anyone that enter the gate apart from the ppl that live in the house and feed him:))
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
We did the same on the island. Imagine my surprise when I came to this country and never see a dog tied to a tree.
@clarakam385810 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤
@clarakam385810 ай бұрын
Yes is corn flour ,salt & water ❤ polenta ,in romanian is " mămăligă" ❤
@gubaII10 ай бұрын
Mămăligă= corn flower water salt (I put a bit of sunflower oil or pork fat), but in Romania, no spices, and it substitutes bread
@gubaII10 ай бұрын
Yeah,in Romania it's blasfamie to throw a jar, we reuse them for what not
@gubaII10 ай бұрын
Good recipe for you, mămăligă grean onions tomatoes and goat cheese
@gubaII10 ай бұрын
Plum palinka done right, commented on an earlier vid
@gubaII10 ай бұрын
Come to Brașov,we can organise something special 😅
@gubaII10 ай бұрын
Vișinată is an alcoholic beverage made using sour cherries, alcohool , sugar and water, really sweet, I actually make it here
@shockandawe727410 ай бұрын
Mamaliga = water + salt + corn flour I doubt we came up with it because corn was imported from the Americas so probably the recipe for mamaliga / kuku came along with it from the same place.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Interesting!
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
Sorry that i am bombarding you with comments, but i comment along side watching the video. Polenta ( italian name, or mamaliga in romania is mande with what English world will call corn meal, as is it coarser and not refined like corn flower, as you can see is yellow due to fact it still has the skin of corn kernels not only the white bit in the middle
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
We use corn meal a lot on the island. I don't mind you commenting a lot, I am getting lots of information from it. Thank you. Hope you have a great day.
@ciupercabogdan995910 ай бұрын
🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤
@RaduP310 ай бұрын
what she shows under the house is not onion. it's leek. the only thing I found in english that matches, but I am not sure 100% . she says "oltenian onion" because the oltenians eat a lot of leek and its a romanian joke to call it like that. i think because we usually eat a lot of onion, so the others eathing a lot of leek makes it being their onion lol. what a weird game this joke has involved in the background. also, someone offered to send you some palinca in the comments i read yesterday on the last video I watched, if he does I am really curious what you think about it lol. make a reaction please :)) i drank all these drinks, not a fan because they are strong and I do not like hard stuff, only wine and beer. even though I am from the capital Bucharest and live in a flat, my father used to do visinata(sour cherry drink - the one they drink) or zmeurata (same thing but from raspberries-zmeura) or even palinca and tuica in our apartment. he had some device that looked like he was a crazy chemist lol. if I remember correctly, the palinca is the version of tuica that is being rerun like 3-4 times through the same process in order to reach concentration. I think I heard about someone having 90 degrees palinca. imagine making tuica which is strong as well, maybe vodka like? and thinking "I'mma do this 3 times more to make sure" hahhaa pentru romanii care nu au inteles de ce se auzea fanfara, de fapt spiritul romanesc a summonat capra si ursul de iarna si sunt sub geamul lui
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thank you for pointing that out. Hope you are having a great day.
@RaduP310 ай бұрын
hope you are having a great day too@@MrGiant
@user-ui1tz3tr7q4 ай бұрын
Yes, the romanians are very superstitions !!😂😂
@cpaulro10 ай бұрын
If you came to Romania and visit Banat region I invite you to stay at my house for free, and we will visit special places in Banat region
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
Thank you. I have never heard of that region. Would love to.
@birckoff120 күн бұрын
@ezgezg861810 ай бұрын
🍻🍻🍻
@ioantakacs55796 ай бұрын
Is România Wischi
@ioantakacs55796 ай бұрын
Go to Romania and taste the food of the area, believe me you will love everything
@MrGiant6 ай бұрын
Its the plan, eating Romanian food in Romania cooked by Romanians.
@shockandawe727410 ай бұрын
The apple pie is not home-made, was bought from the store. I don't know anyone who makes it swirly like that.
@MrGiant10 ай бұрын
I thought it was kind of strange looking. Still looks good though.
@m0t0b3310 ай бұрын
lots of people make the folly dough ( the same kind or similar to the one used for baklava) pie like that... and it can be with cheese filling, or even cabbage or meat... it's got Turkish or Tatar influences but yeah... in Dobrogea region you can find this version of pie a little more popularly. There's also the linzer, which is made with a tender type of dough, like in a tart, but it's structured like a sandwich: sheet of dough, apple filling, sheet of dough, baked until it's a nice golden brown, and then it's powdered with sugar before serving. And there are also the types of "pies" like the strudel ( puff pastry with apple filling) or the ones made with a brioche dough.
@chaossky344810 ай бұрын
good reactions ive watched your videos, but please turn off subtitles/captions those translations are really bad , i see you look confused
@michaeltom546510 ай бұрын
On the right side of the screen , where it says " CC" press to 2 CC and the subtitle will disappear.
@michaeltom546510 ай бұрын
In Romania, in the countryside everyone is self-sufficient .
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
Until last 50 60 years pretty much every family was self-sufficient. Due to communist party politics food in the shops was rather scarce
@m0t0b3310 ай бұрын
and now we have everything available and can't afford it.. MUCH better 😂
@sleepyjohn269510 ай бұрын
@@m0t0b33 yeap!!
@ciuzdamm10 ай бұрын
You should swap the screens. You want to show Romania not your face, don't you?
@DinaA50610 ай бұрын
You don't come to the man video to tell him how to make the clips.
@ciuzdamm10 ай бұрын
@DinaA506 Why not? Because you say so? I gave him advice and he appreciated it.
@DinaA50610 ай бұрын
@@ciuzdamm Because it's his channel and he makes the videos the way he wants, not the way you want, if you don't like it, don't watch. Simple. 😉